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INVENTION SUBMISSION CORP. v. ROGAN

Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Media Law
The Patent and Trademark Office's advertising campaign, launched in connection with its duty to publicize complaints concerning invention promoters,...

LIEBEL-FLARSHEIM CO. v. MEDRAD, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment of noninfringement is reversed. The common specification of two of plaintiff's fluid-injector patents does not limit the scope of the...

PEOPLE v. LAIWALA

Criminal Law & Procedure, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets
The record contains insufficient evidence that the "master key" associated with a DVD copy protection scheme had "independent economic value." Thus it...

ELLISON v. AM. ONLINE INC.

Copyright, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property
Contributory copyright liability claim, arising after plaintiff's short stories were posted on a peer-to-peer file sharing network to which defendant...

NOMOS CORP. v. BRAINLAB USA, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment of noninfringement of a patent was properly granted to defendants. The structure of defendants' ExacTrac device, a patient...

FIELDTURF, INC. v. S.W. RECREATIONAL INDUS., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent, Sports Law
Plaintiffs, putative exclusive licensees of an artificial-turf patent, lack a substantial interest in that patent, and thus lack standing to enforce...

MICROSOFT CORP. v. MULTI-TECH SYS., INC.

Communications Law, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court properly construed the asserted claims of three of defendant's patents to be limited to communications over a telephone line and to...

ADCO OIL CO. v. ROVELL

Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Legal Malpractice, Oil and Gas Law
Because plaintiff assigned both its intellectual property and its interest in the underlying litigation to Hugoton Joint Venture 1986 (HJV), its only...

NAT'L STEEL CAR, LTD. v. CANADIAN PAC. RY., LTD.

Intellectual Property, Patent, Transportation
The record shows substantial merit in defendant's 35 U.S.C. section 272 defense to infringement, and in its obviousness defense. District court abused...

SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CORP. v. EXCEL PHARMS., INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Defendant was not entitled to summary judgment of noninfringement. The present record does not address the foreseeability of sustained release agent...